Analyzing Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan’s Gringo Love in relation to theoretical understandings of sex

Challenged assumptions and stereotypes about sex tourism

Gringo Love paper You will be required to write a paper of approximately 2000 words (12 font, 1.25” margins, double spaced) on Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan’s book Gringo Love. Your analysis must draw on theoretical readings and themes developed in the course. In addition to Carrier-Moisan’s book, you must work with at least three other texts from the course. This assignment is asking you to analyze Carrier-Moisan’s book in relation to theories and ideas from the course, not describe it. Keep descriptions to a minimum. Use examples for illustrative purposes only, and focus on analysis. Use the following questions (some are adapted from appendix 1 of the book) as guides when writing your paper OR developing your podcast.

You DO NOT need to answer all of these questions. They are meant as prompts to get you thinking, or jumping off points for approaching your essay or audio recording: -What are some of the common assumptions and stereotypes about sex tourism that were challenged by the book? Assumptions about Brazil? About sex workers? About sex tourists? -What can we learn about the complexities of the sex industry from reading Gringo Love? In which ways does the book confirm or challenge theoretical understandings of gendered sexuality? -How are the hopes and desires of the sex workers and sex tourists in the book gendered and racialized? -What anti-sex tourism strategies are deployed in the book?

How are they linked to sexism, racism, and classism? How do they impact the characters in the book? - How do the relationships between locals and tourists explSXST2101 Global Genders and Sexualitiesored in the book challenge the dichotomies between public/private, work/leisure, love/money, fakeness/authenticity? -What kinds of power relationships do you see at play in Gringo Love? Do power relationships shift throughout the book, or do they remain the same? -Contextualize Carrier-Moisan’s writing historically, socially, economically, politically. What are the particular circumstances that structure this narrative of the sex industry and make it possible? -Gringo Love records the results of an academic study, but using a format that is unusual for academic work. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the graphic novel form rather than a standard academic text?